- Born
- Died
- Birth nameBernard Joseph Cribbins
- Nickname
- Bernie
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- An actor since the age of 14, Bernard Cribbins had become a major star on the London stage by his mid-20s, but it was another ten years before he became a national star by his success in film comedies and with a string of hit records. He appeared in several of the "Carry On" series, and also achieved a great degree of success doing voiceovers for cartoons and TV commercials.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpouseGillian McBarnet(August 27, 1955 - October 11, 2021) (her death)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsEthel ClarksonJohn Edward Cribbins
- He served in the Parachute Regiment, the British Army's airborne assault force, in 1947, as his National Service.
- Aged 79 when he made his first appearance as Mott, he is the oldest actor to have played a credited companion on Doctor Who (1963) or Doctor Who (2005).
- He is the only actor to appear in both the "Doctor Who" feature film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) and the revived television series, Doctor Who (2005).
- He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.
- He has a longstanding association with the science-fiction series Doctor Who (1963). Not only did he play a companion in the second Peter Cushing film, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966), 40 years before his regular role as a companion, Wilfred Mott, in the Russell T. Davies version of Doctor Who (2005), he had also been interviewed for the role of the Doctor in 1974 by Barry Letts.
- [on Doctor Who (1963)] I didn't actually audition. But when Jon Pertwee was leaving, producer Barry Letts--who died quite recently--interviewed a lot of actors, one of whom was me. I went along and sat down and he said, "Now, then, what can you do?" I said, "I'm a very good swimmer, I was a paratrooper, I could fight"--and he said, "Oh no, no fighting no, the Doctor is never seen fighting at all!" So Tom Baker became the next Doctor, and one of the first things I remember him doing was knocking somebody out.
- [on being awarded the OBE] Gobsmacked! You can't go through life expecting to get prizes. You just get on with things, which is how it should be.
- "Do your best and be grateful for every single job" - advice that he gives in his autobiography "Bernard Who? 75 Years Of Doing Absolutely Everything", published in 2018.
- Carry on Spying (1964) - £5,000
- Carry on Jack (1964) - £5,000
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